The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora
The first and only book to gather the voices and perspectives of Vietnamese diasporic authors from across the globe,The Cleaving: Vietnamese Writers in the Diaspora is now ready for pre-order (with a 30% discount). Bringing Vietnamese artists and writers in conversation about their craft and how their work has been shaped and received by mainstream culture and their own communities, this collection highlights how Vietnamese diasporic writers speak about having been cleaved—a condition in which they have been separated from, yet still hew to, the country that they have left behind. Edited by Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Lan P. Duong, and Viet Thanh Nguyen; published by University of California Press.
OTHER INFLUENCES at Pratt Institute’s Writers Forum
A reading and roundtable in celebration of OTHER INFLUENCES: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry (MIT Press, 2024) at Pratt Institute. Hoa Nguyen joins Brenda Coultas, Carla Harryman, Patricia Spears Jones and Julie Patton on Dec. 6 at 6 PM in beautiful Higgins Hall.
22 Years of “Reading and Writing” Workshops with Hoa Nguyen
22 Years of “Reading and Writing” Workshops with Hoa Nguyen. Part 1 of 2 look backs as love letters on Future Feed.
Divinatory Poetics: A Talk by Hoa Nguyen on Future Feed
From “Divinatory Poetics Talk” by Hoa Nguyen on Future Feed: “Speaking beyond the immediately known to the perceived elsewhere has been a constant preoccupation of mine and informs my poetics and relationship with the lyric poem. Sometimes this elsewhere speaks from ‘extra-human’ sources: messages from ancestors, animal communications, divination methods, and dream.”
Poet’s Poet: Hoa Nguyen Alongside Lorine Niedecker
From Post45’s “Locating Lorine Niedecker”: An essay by Hoa Nguyen that links the personal & the global, the Mekong Delta & Lake Koshkonong, poetry & pedagogy, present & past.
Nguyen | Shan at Type Books Toronto
Type Books in Toronto presents Hoa Nguyen and Xiao Yue Shan on Tuesday, Nov 14 at 7 PM. Live and in person. 883 QUEEN ST. W.